Stephen Smith's Papers and Presentations

This study evaluated a large-scale agricultural extension program's impacts on women's technology adoption and food security in Uganda. The program led to better basic cultivation methods and improved food security. Farmers also modified how they coped with shocks.

This study provides experimental tests of the effects of program phase-out in the context of a large-scale agricultural input subsidy and extension program operated by the NGO BRAC to increase the use of improved seed varieties and basic farming practices among women smallholders in Uganda.

This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing agricultural technology constraints amount in the form credit constraints, informational barriers, technical support, among others in Senegal.